Nights of Rain and Stars, Maeve Binchy
Nights of Rain and Stars, Maeve Binchy
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Nights of Rain and Stars

Author: Maeve Binchy

Narrator: Terry Donnelly

Unabridged: 9 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 09/16/2004

Synopsis

The lives of four strangers are forever altered when they meet in a Greek seaside village in this compelling novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Maeve Binchy.

Tourists enter the hilltop tavern, alone and in pairs, for a casual lunch. But a sudden tragedy in the harbor below causes these perfect strangers to become unlikely friends as their lives begin to entwine...

Fiona left her nursing career in Ireland to be with the man everyone thinks is wrong for her. Elsa fled Germany and her high-powered television job once she learned what the man she loved was hiding from her. Thomas mourns his failed marriage and misses his young son in California, while David yearns to reconcile with his family in England without having to go into the family business. Chance has brought them together, and together they will find new ways of looking at the lives they left behind.

“By the time the bouzouki players start up on the last page, you’ll feel you’ve known these people all your life.”—The Seattle Times 

“The sort of book you should take with you on a trip to the Greek islands.”—The Boston Globe

About The Author

MAEVE BINCHY was born in County Dublin and educated at the Holy Child convent in Killiney and at University College, Dublin. After a spell as a teacher she joined The Irish Times. Her first novel, Light a Penny Candle, was published in 1982, and she went on to write more than twenty books, all of them best sellers. Several have been adapted for film and television, most notably Circle of Friends and Tara Road, which was an Oprah’s Book Club selection. She was married to the writer and broadcaster Gordon Snell for thirty-five years, and died in 2012 at the age of seventy-two.www.maevebinchy.com

Reviews

Goodreads review by Suz on June 14, 2020

This is must be the only Maeve book I've left off my shelf! I can't bear the thought that I had allowed one to slip through! As my memory is pretty (very) scratchy, I don't remember in vivid colour, but I know that I loved it, every single bit. Have also added it as 'Want to read again'. As with mos......more

Goodreads review by Blondish And on August 21, 2019

Another case of “good but not great”. Maeve Binchy’s best are definite 5 star reads, this one isn’t quite there. It’s a nice read, just not one that I can’t put down, or one I will reread. Many of the main characters aren’t very likable (although some of them are in Binchy’s other Dublin series book......more

Goodreads review by mimi (taylor’s version) on April 14, 2021

All is well that ends well… sort of. If you think this is the perfect summer novel, the type of book you read on the beach to relax, you couldn’t make the worst mistake. Nothing is relaxing in this story, it actually starts with a tragedy and ends with the worst type of ending. I'm a fan of happy endi......more

Goodreads review by Amy on June 08, 2019

Simply beautiful! So this is what Maeve Binchy does, how she writes. I have been reading her books since I was a little girl and hers was one of the first books I remember from when I was young and I fell in love with reading. What Maeve does is gather a cast of unrelated characters and throws them......more

Goodreads review by Brittany on April 13, 2022

2.5 stars I'm confused as to how Nights of Rain and Stars fits into Binchy's body of work. Set in Greece and focusing on people from four different countries united when a tragedy occurs in this small, idyllic town, it's a far cry from the usual Irish small-town story. Considering how confrontatio......more

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Praise for Maeve Binchy and Nights of Rain and Stars

“Satisfying and comforting.”—The Columbus Dispatch
 
“Engaging…Binchy’s fans will enjoy this summery page-turner.”—Publishers Weekly

“A remarkably gifted writer...a wonderful student of human nature.”—The New York Times Book Review 

“Reading one of Maeve Binchy’s novels is like coming home.”—The Washington Post

“Binchy is a grand storyteller in the finest Irish tradition…she writes from the heart.”—The Cleveland Plain Dealer 

“Binchy’s genius is transforming storytelling into art.”—San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle

“Binchy’s tales combine warmth and spunk in a quintessentially Celtic way...In the field of women’s popular fiction, the Dublin storyteller sticks out like a faultless solitaire on a Woolworth’s jewelry counter.”—Chicago Tribune

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